Fathers and sons
By: Ivan Turgenev ; introduction and notes by Ann Pasternak Slater ; the Constance Garnett translation has been substantially revised by Elizabeth Cheresh Allen.
Contributors: Garnett, Constance Black, 1862-1946.; Allen, Elizabeth Cheresh, 1951-
Edition: Modern Library pbk. ed.
Series: The Modern Library classics
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Fathers and sons -- Fiction; Nihilism (Philosophy) -- Fiction; Russia -- Social conditions -- 1801-1917 -- Fiction; Russia -- Social life and customs -- 1533-1917 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "When Fathers and Sons was first published in Russia, in 1862, it was met with a blaze of controversy about where Turgenev stood in relation to his account of generational misunderstanding. Was he criticizing the worldview of the conservative aesthete, Pavel Kirsanov, and the older generation, or that of the radical, cerebral medical student, Evgenii Bazarov, representing the younger one?

The critic Dmitrii Pisarev wrote at the time that the novel "stirs the mind...because everything is permeated with the most complete and most touching sincerity." N. N. Strakhov, a close friend of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, praised its "profound vitality." It is this profound vitality in Turgenev's characters that carry his novel of ideas to its rightful place as a work of art and as one of the classics of Russian literature."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.